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Comer announces hearing scheduled for July 19   WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) will hold a hearing titled “Hearing with IRS Whistleblowers About the Biden Criminal Investigation.” At this full committee hearing, the American people will hear from IRS whistleblowers who possess critical information related to the committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes. In addition, ...

WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) held a markup of several bills aimed at reforming government spending, addressing regulatory burdens, and improving cybersecurity. Chairman Comer released the following statement after passage of these bills: “The American people deserve a government that is transparent, efficient, and effective. These bills bring solutions to modernize our government, root out inefficiencies, target ...

WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “Investigating the Proximal Origin of a Cover Up” to examine the potential conflicts of interest and suppression of scientific discourse by the National Institutes of Health surrounding the drafting, publication, and critical reception of the infamous “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (Proximal Origin) correspondence. Select Subcommittee members asked Dr. Kristian Andersen and Dr. Robert Garry ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is requesting FBI Director Christopher Wray provide an unredacted copy of the FBI’s report that was created after Dr. Gal Luft met with Department of Justice and FBI officials in Brussels in March 2019. During the meeting, Dr. Luft allegedly provided information about the Bidens’ financial transactions with CEFC, a CCP-linked energy company. “The Committee on Oversight and ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued an interim staff report detailing the Select Subcommittee’s comprehensive investigation into the suppression of the lab-leak hypothesis by America’s leading public health officials through the drafting, publication, and critical reception of the infamous “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (“Proximal Origin”) publication. The report titled “The Proximal Origin of a ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas) today announced a hearing titled “Cancelling Consumer Choice: Examining the Biden Administration’s Regulatory Assault on Americans’ Home Appliances” to bring transparency to the Department of Energy’s wave of new regulatory burdens on American consumers’ home appliances. “The Department of Energy’s wave of new standards on everyday appliances from ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s hearing titled “The Proximal Origin of a Cover-Up” by emphasizing the importance of investigating whether senior government officials had an insufficient basis and political motivations for tipping the scales towards their preferred zoonotic COVID-19 origin theory. Chairman Wenstrup lays out three potential motivations for abandoning scientific vigor in favor of political ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) will hold a hearing titled “Getting Nowhere: DoD’s Failure to Replace the Defense Travel System.” The subcommittee hearing will examine the Department of Defense’s (DOD) quarter-century old legacy travel system. This system has diverted hundreds of millions of dollars annually from warfighting due to its inefficiencies and  generation of improper payments. ...

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) today announced a hearing titled “Why Expanding Medicaid to DACA Recipients Will Exacerbate the Border Crisis.” The hearing will examine the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule to expand taxpayer-funded federal health benefits to illegal immigrants benefiting from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program created unilaterally by the Obama ...

WASHNGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) are seeking additional information from Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (Fed Board), on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). In a letter sent today, the lawmakers highlight that the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank (SF Fed) has failed to produce documents that satisfy the Committee’s ...